The 10:1 Managerial Ratio

Most managers couldn’t even attempt this. But for the ones who can, it’d be pretty sweet.

It’s a pretty simple concept:

• For every one order/directive you give, ask 10 questions before that.

I got it from this post by my man Art Petty, where he talks about being a hyper-rooster manager.

What’s a hyper-rooster? Glad you asked:

These over-caffeinated and self-anointed drivers of productivity falsely believe that constant pushing and oversight followed by more pushing are all essential. They subscribe to an old model of motivation — one that depended upon unwavering immersion in the act of “supervising” the work of others. The underlying belief is that people who are watched and/or, who are constantly goaded into action actually outperform those left to their own designs.

This is kind of the essential problem of most workplaces — bad managers and how they get that way — and it all comes from the base idea that management…